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Show - . V .; A day or two ii.'o Polly worked li is feeding dish out of the bars o( hi ji cage so thr.t it fell to the ground. to it!' ho said, corking his heud on ono jj side. I always avoid going1 near the cage of thin bird when I am eating fruit, bt'ciiu-.- he is so fond of it and yet can not bo allowed to have any. If I do so ho will make noises like the smacking of lips and will ask, Is it good? Is it good?' SomrtiinuH the parrot will imitate two ladies talking, one in the same room and another in another apartment. The mimicry of the imaginary conversation is really wonderful. On occasions it will ap-pear to bo so convulsed with laughter as hardly to be able to articulate what it is trying to say. Or, after making some remarks which have excited the laughter of others, while Polly has been entirely grave, he will, when a pause follows, indulge in a quiet little ha, ha!' all to himself, just as a per-son might. ' People deny that birds possess lan-guage, refuse to believe that thoir in-telligence is anything beyond instinct, and finally assert that they have no souls. The fii-s- t assertion is a proven absurdity, while the second has been long exploded. Instinct, anyhow, is only an ignorant term for inherited experience." THEY AliE SMART IJIRDS.j tND KNOW MORE THAN SOME WHOLE FAMILIES. A 1'rnfeftHor ltelates home ICrmarkalile Tale About a Very Heuiarkahle Tama Vrow and a Moat Itemarkuble l'arrot. Birds are commonly included among tho dumb animals, merely liecause mankind does not un-derstand their speech. " said Taxider-mist Wood of the Smithsonian institu-tion to a writer for the Washington Star. "As a matter of fact, they have very comprehensive languages of their own, with words to express all their amotion and to convey understanding to others of their kind. They jossess notes to indicate alarm, notes of love, notes of curiosity, notes of pain, notes of hunger, notes of sorrow, notes of joy. notes of soothing for their young, .notes of calling their fellows together, notes of peevishness vocal sounds, in short, by which they are able to make their feeiings known and to commu-nicate their ideas on every subject. Nor is it true that they can only speak intelligibly to ono another. Their 4'oiiversation is easily understood by any human being who has mndo a sufficient study of bird talk. I myself grew up in tne country among oiras, domesticated and otherwise, and what they say is as plain and clear to me as any utterances of your own. Not only do I comprehend them, but I have no difficulty in making them comprehend me. I can, in a moment, by a little murmur soothe to content a flock of small chicks that are crying for the mother hen. "I assure you that birds have far more intelligence than they are usually given credit for. Science gives much study to their physical structure and classification, but rlono worth men-tioning to their minds, and so from pure igno: an?e it is imagined that the latter do not amount to much. Just to illustrate the fact that they know something I will tell you of a pt t crow that 1 got. from the nest when I was a boy, win n it seemed pretty much all bead and mouth. He used to go out hunting w ith me, no matter how many milos I traveled with gun on shoulder, and, for his share in sport, ho, thought it a great deal of fun to chase rabbits and cat?. But he was dreadfully per-secuted by all the wild crows, which appeared to disapprove of him because he was a tame one. On our journey in search of game he would fly nearly out of sight and then come back to perch for a while upon my coat and pull at my ears. "Jim was very jealous of a pair of young pigeons that I kept. Ho would take all their food and hide it, and in this way I have known him to get away at ono time with thirty-tw- o mice. I took him to spend a week's visit with me at the house of an aunt of mine, who took particular pride in a certain patch of most beautiful cabbage. The erw having been driven away by my xt tive from the cabbages, least he take a notion . to eat any, seemed there-upon to determine upon revenge which he very neatly executed. It wag a favorite amusement of his to tease a big dog that belonged to tho premises, ana no enticed tins aog into the cabbage patch by flying across it with the animal in pursuit. By cross-ing and recrossing the patch, flying low, Jim succeeded in making the dog v gallop through tho cabbages in every direction, so that they were well nigh ruined, much to my aunt's anger and disgust. "When I came home in the after-noons Jim would fly to meet me as soon as I was in sight. Sometimes he would come to tho school and look in at the window wistfully. A favorite game of his wan to take little kittens by the tail and pull them backward. Also he liked to chew all the buttons off the family wash when it was hung out. Ho would be very affectionate to one of the hens at about laying time. When she was about to lay he would sit down lovingly beside her and ns eoon as the egg was laid he would eat it. One day he disappeared to be subsequently found in a neighbor's hedroom admiring himself in the mir-ror. At one time I wns away for seven months and when I came back he received me with the most extrav-agant evidences of joy and affection, dancing around me, flapping his wings and crying out loudly. When con-fined to his cage he used to spend hours in coasting down an inclined plank, using a top of a mustard can for a sled. He would carry tho sled up to the top of the plank, step into it and slide to the bottom, repeating tho operation again and again with the greatest glee. "If there are any wiser birds than crows, those birds are parrots. I know a parrot that will put on its overcoat if it sees you doing the same so far as hunching up its shoulders can express the idea. When it sees a big dog it will imitate a big dog's bark, but if the dog is a little one it mill bark like a little dog. Sometimes it has to be whipped for being naughty, and then it always begs for mercy by holding up one foot alongside its head. Now it happens that, although parrots ordinarily are by nature fruit eaters, this one is not allowed fruit, because it makes him sick. The other day we was left at liberty in a room whero a dish of grapes were on a table. Over-come by the temptation Polly ate all the grapes and when some one came in the first object seen was the parrot in an attitude of contrition and appeal, holding up one foot in the air. One day on a railway train Polly was shut up in a' basket. A passenger called "Baby!" to a tot that had strayed into the aisle, upon which the bird at once began to cry liko an infant. "The lady to whom this parrot be-longed has a way when she drops any-thing by accident of saying, "Go it!1 the czar's cor;. HI Jonrnrf Aroand (be World (9 Ba , Completed by a Vlalt to America. 1 Jf The czarowitz will noon arrive in Sao ' f Francisco to continue the tour of the world, which he began some time ago. De has spent some time in British India j since he left home, nnd was given a grand reception by English officials and J native chiefs in aft tt.e principal cities, 'f, Some queer stories are told of his ac- - tion to illustrate the chronic fear of nihilism, in which the whole Kussiao k imperial family live. The future Em-- .( peror of all Russia is said to be very nervous and to live in constant expecta-tion of assassination. At a banquet given to him and his suite in Madras u characteristic in-cident occurred. The czarowiti and his fellow travelers were, us usual, :n full military unifoira and wore their swords. A loud explosion was hear, outside the banquet hall and the im-perial ghost and his suit turned pale, jumped to their feet and put their hands to their swords. They evidently thought it was a bomb which had exploded. In-vestigation showed that it was only a soda water bottle that had burst. It is genemlly supposed that more Nihilists and Anarchists have found refuge in America than in any other country, and it is said that most elabo-rate precautions have been tak'm to guard against attempts on the young muns life durintr bis sojourn in the United States. He will visit all the principal cities of the Union before go- - THE CZAKOWITZ. . ing to F.urope and will go from hero to England. Sherman oa the of War. 'Xhe following letter was originally published in the Selma (Ala.) Times ami is now pasted In the scrapbookof a citizen of Washington. It was from Gen. Sherman to a Confederate cler-gyman asking to have his horse re-stored to him, and the Times says: "It is a very good specimen of the er-ratic humor of that eminent raider and will doubtless provoke a smile from many a Conlederate who was himself occasionally 'careless in search for titlo.' where horses, bee-hives, or vegetables wore concerned": Atlanta, Ga., Sept. Mi, 1864. The Rev. , Confederate Army Dear Sir: Your letter of Sept 14 is received. I approach the question involving tho title of a horse with great diffidence, for the laws of war that mysterious code of which we talk so much, but know so little are remarkably silent on the "horse." He is a beast so tempting to the soldier to him of the wild cavalry, tho fancy artillery, or tho patient infantry that I lind more difficulty in reclaiming a worthless spavined beast than in pay-ing l.OEM',000 greenbacks." So I fear that 1 must reduce your claim to one of flnanco, and refer you to tho great Board of Claims in Washington, that may roach your case by the time your grandchild becomes a grand-father. Privately I think it was a shabby thing in tho scamp of the Ihirty-firs- t Missouri who took your horse, and his Colonel or Brigadier should have returned Mm. Hut I can-not undertake to make good the sins of my own Colonels and Brigadiers, much less those of a former genera-tion. "When this cruel war is over," and peaco once more gives you a parish, I will promise, if near you, to procure out of ono of Uncle Sam's corrals a beast that will replace the one taken from you so wrongfully. But now 'tis impossible; we have n big journey before us and will need all we have, and, I fear, moro too. So look out when the Yankees are about. THE CAMP FIRE. WAR EPISODES AND OTHER MIL-ITARY MATTERS. (n ttogardto the Malta In Italy A Cour-ageous vlrl Sherman on the l.awa oC War It Ha, Only a alainped e. I am the American Kugle, And mv wine nap l.ikewiae I roost lnli. Anil 1 eat banana raw. Koine niuy ait on her Seven lulu and howl, Hut cannot Sit on Me! Will abe put tb at In ber organ and icrind it? 1 am mostly a bird of peace. And I was 'born without teetb, Hut I've got talon Tual reach from the storm- - lleatcn coasts of the Atlantic To the coklen idiom of the Placid Pacilic. And I u-- the ltocky Mountains Aa whetstonea to sharpen them on. 1 never ruckle till 1 Lay in eg; And 1 point w ith pride To the euxa I've laid In the lam hundred years or so. I'm game from Tlie point of my lieak To the tip Of iny tail feathers, And when I begin '1'3 scratch cjavel, Mind vour eyea! I'm tlie Cock of the Walk, And the Ilenhird of the Goddess of Liberty, The only gslllnuci-ou- i K l'l l KUM s I'XL'M On record. If I hadn't screamed Washington wouldn't bo Father of his country Only its uncle Or aunt on its mother's side. Whether I'm ulive or sniffed I'm an l'.aie from Ka.uleviiie. With a scream on me that nuikes Thunder sound like Iiropping cotton On a still tnoi nin l'. And my present address is Hail Columbia, C. S. A.! ! See.' The Sun. and hide your beasts, for my exper-ience is that all soldiers are very care-less in a search for title. 1 know Gen. Hardee will confirm my advico. With great respect, yours truly, Wm. T. Siikhman, Major-Genera- l. Napoleon's Attitude Towards Kings. Napoleon was on his way to Erfurt Conference and directed all the details of a splendid occasion. Talley-rand quotes from Napoleon's conver-sation with M. de Kemusat. "It strikes me," he said, "we have no very great names; I must have some; the truth is, they alone can make a good figure at court. In jus-tice to tho French nobility, wo must allow that it is admirable for that." "Siro you have M. do Montes-quieu." Good'" "Prince Sapieha." "Not bad!" "I think two will be sufficient. The journey being a short one, your maj-esty can always have them in attend-ance." "Quite so. And now,. Remusat, I must have one performance everyday. Send for Dazinoourt; he is the man-ager, is ho not?" "He is. Slro." "I want to astonish Germany with my matrnificeuoe." "It is, no doubt, your majesty's in-tention to invite a few great person-ages to Erfurt; and time presses." One of Eugene's aides-de-cam- p starts this very day," replied the em-peror. "Wc might let him know the proper thing to hint to his father-in-la- w the King of Bavaria, and if one of the kings come, they will all want to come. Then again " he added, "no, we must not make use of Eugene for that; Eugene is not clever enough. He is the man to carry out exactly what I want, but he is no good at hinting. Talleyrand is better; tho more so " and here he laughed "as he will pose as my critic, and declare that I shall feel gratified by the kings' coming. It will be my business, after-wards, to show that I was absolutely indifferent in tho matter, and that they were really more in my way than otherwise." Century, Scott In All His Glory. "Now look at Castle Garden," said one of those old Boweryites who aro always giving reminiscences, "while I tell you of my first memory of it. It was just after the Mexican war, about forty years ago, when the splendifer-ous conqueror of Mexico. Gen. Win-liel- d Scott, appeared there at a recep-tion given him after his return here. It was the grandest thing that had The Matin In Ilaly. When tho late General Phil Sheri-dan was in Europe ten years back, he became particularly interested in "The Mafia." and other similar charming products of tho Italian peninsula, by his association with Italian army com-manders whose orders were to tear those societies by the root out of Italy. In Italy Sheridan was a witness to a practical proof of the terrible power of these societies by the violent meas-ures tho government was compelled to resort to to destroy them. In the Sheridan party was an Irishman named St. John Brcnon, who ac-companied the general on his journey through Italy, acting on all occasions as his interpreter. After Sheridan went homo Brenon remained in South Italy five years and made a special study of the secret criminal societies. In a letter to a friend, among other subjects he said: T must give you an idea of what the Malia really is. Many nobles of the wealthiest families of Sicily were members of it some from sympathy, others from fear. It differed from the Camorra society in the fact that it had been always leagued with brigandage. For that reason its existence was to defy the law and to despise the judic-inr- y of the country. The Mafia con-trolled elections, boycotted when it was in a merciful mood, but as a rule it robbed and assisted indiscriminately the purposes of plun-der and revenge. It has a code of honor called Omerta, which means tho code of men who havo blood in the veins by which all who aro members of the Mafia bind themselves never to give evidence in a court of law and never to seek at law redress for any injury. "In alliance with the Mafia is a sub-secr- et order called l'ratellanzo, who are a band of assassins whose motto is: "Sweet is the wine, but sweeter still is the blood of the Christian." Their acknowledged god is Aremi, which is the name of the playing cards of the Sicilians marked with gold money. Doubtless it is this subdivi-sion of the Mafia that is the pest of New Orleans." The .Legal Adviser. A Courageous Girl, It was my privilege to meet with the 'Old Time Telegraphers" in Kansas City recently, and one of our many "good times" waB a visit to the Soldiers' Homo near Leavenworth, Kas. You are not to have a description of that beautifi'l retreat now, but only a little telegraphic story of the battle of Gettysburg told me by Captain O. It. McNary. Post No. G, who was well acquainted with its heroine, and was near her temporary office during the battle. When tho enemy entered the town driving awny the citizens, the rail-road station operator, a young girl, took the machine from the operating table, connected the wires so as to preserve the circuit intact and carried the instrument to Cemetery Hill, a quarter of a mile distant. Placing it upon a block of wood she instructed the boys how to cut the lino and re-connect the wires, and seated upon the ground sent and received news for the officers all through the battle, fal-tering not in her resolution when the brains of a man struck by a shell not six feet away were scattered over her faithful to her post throughout all those awful scenes for three days. When the end came she replaced the telegraphic machinery in its old posi-tion and resumed her work in the sta-tion. It is a story that belongs in history, but like many another incident of that time especially wherein woman were the heroes remains unrecorded. My informant could give me only meagre details, had forgotten, unfor-tunately, tho name of the brave girl. She was an orphan, reared by a Mr. Lee (Brown Lee) in Washington county, Pa. It is known that she re-mained a year in the Gettysburg sta-tion office after the battle Mary Dye, in Pa. Grit. 0 been Been up to that time In Castle Garden. The victorious hero, who had a majestic figure, was proud that night; he was gorgeously arrayed in the military style that gave him the nickname of "Fuss and Feathers"; he marched in an imperious way to the front of the platform, and I tell you he looked toploftical as he bowed be-fore the welcoming shouts of the mul-titude in the decorated rotunda ol Castle garden. It was a great night for Winfleld Scott and for the whole city as far up as Union square. I could tell of many another spectacle of the old times in Castle garden but not of a grander one than that." New York Sun. Securing Gen. Sherman's Grave. The work of enclosing and securing the grave of Gen. Sherman in St. Louis has been finally completed and the military guard which has been stationed at the grave since the day of the funeral was removed. A trench was sunk to the depth of nine feet surrounding the grave of the General and Mrs. Sherman, and In this a stone wall rising to a few feet of the surface of the ground. This enclosure was covered over with granite slabs and stone, and cement was added above to a thickness of about two feet. The space above was filled In and the lot leveled up and rosodded. A solid etona foundation was also put in, on which the new monument will stand. THE PATACONIAN BOLAS- - Effective Weapon I'aed by the SaTagee of Far South Amerljaw Next to the boomerang in point of singularity as a savage weapon is the Pntagonian bolas, gays the New York Telegram. To look at it one would have to smile, as its appeuranco is against it, but its destructiveness it) beyond question. Described in a sentence, the bolus consists of two, sometimes throo, ball at the end of hide thongs. The Pata-gonia-call the two-ba-ll bolas soma! and the three-ba- ll weapon achlco. The balls are made of stone and are about as large as cricket balls. Tho stonos aro ground till they are round-ed. This work is performed by the native women, who are experts at the trade and who may bo seen at work at all hours. Some bolas balls are of Iron, but thosa valued most are of copper. Tho latter are smaller than the stone balls and aro more to be de-sired, as they experience less resistance from tho air. The thong is about nine foet in length and is made of two pieces of rawhide, which are dampened and then twisted together. There are generally three of those thongs, and at tho end of each is a ball done up in a cover of guanaeo hide, not unliKe our baseballs. Usually one of the thongs is shorter than tho others, so that when the three lines aro grasped at the point of junc-ture one ball hangs less far down than its mates. Such is the native weapon of tho tall Fatagonians. Now, how do they use it? Generally the hunter carries it twisted round his waist like the sash of an officer, the balls dangling at his Bide like the tassel of a sash. Tho Patngonian is usually mounted, liko our Comanche Indian, and seeks his game from tho saddle. When ho sees his game and gives his horso tho rein he unwinds tho bo-las by a single motion of his deft hand and grasps tho thongs at' tho point of union. Away go the hunter and his game, sometimes tho fleet ostrich, at other times the equally swift guanaeo. Not a movement of tho game does tho Pntagonian miss. He bears down upon it like a whirlwind, tho ever ready bolas in his hand. When he comes within hurling distance he whirls the novel weapon over his head till it has gathered enough centrifugal force' to separate tho balls, when he launches it at tlie animal. The balls, whirling madly in their flight, reach and twist round the unfortunate victim ana cpeeuuy tiring it aown. me chOK-in- g powers of the bolas render it the most dangerous of all weapons used by savage nations. The balls draw the thongs tighter all the time, and once struck there is no escape for tho vic-tim. Tho skill of ralagonian bolas throw-ers is marvelous. Tho weapon is as unerring as the arrow and just aa deadly. Exports can fasten a rider to his horse with tho bolas or bring down both man and beast with a single weap-on. The object is to always throw the bolas so that the thongs, not tho balls, will strike the target aimed at; tho fly-ing balls do tho rest complete the victory, as it were. In no other country is the bolas used, and the Patngonian enjoys the distinction of possessing a weapon dis-tinctly national in its character, and' even more terrible than the boomerang. A LESSON IN SPELLING. It Will Also Serve to Test Vour I'ronun-clatlo- The most skillful ganger I ever knew was a maligned cobbler armed with a poniard, who drove a peddler's wagon, using a mullein stalk as an instrument of coercion, to tyrannizo overhis pony, shod with calks. He was a German Sadducee. and had a phthisicky catarrh, diphtheria, and the bilious, 'intermittent erysipelas. A certain sibyl, with tho sobriquet of "Gypsy," went into of cachinnation at seeing him measure a bushel of pons, and separate saccharine tomatoes from a heap of potatoes; without dyeing or singeing the ignitiblo queue which ho wore, or becoming paralyzed with a hemorrhage. Lifting her eyes to the ceiling of the cupola of the capitol to conceal her unparalleled embarrass-ment, making a rough courtesy, and not harassing him with mystifying, rarefying and stupefying innuendoes, she gave hiin a couch, a bouquet of lilies, mignonette, and fuchsias, a treatise on mnemonics, a copy of the Apocrypha in hieroglyphics, daguer-reotypes- of Mendelssohn and Kosciusko, a kaleidoscope, a dram phial of ipecac-uanha, a teaspoonful naphtha for doleble purposes, a ferule, a clarionet, some licorice, a surcingle, a car-noli-of symmetrical proportions, a chronometer with movable balance wheel, a box of dominoes and a cate-chism. The gauger, who was also a trafficking rectifier and a parishioner of mine, preferred a woolen surtout (his choice was referable to a vacillat-ing, occasionally-occurrin- g idiosyn-crasy), aud wofully uttered this apothegm: "Life is checkered: but schism, apostacy, heresy, and villany, however esoteric and malign, shall be punished." The sibyl apologizingly a.iswerod; "There is no allegeable dif-ference between a conferrable ellipsis and trisyllable diaeresis." Pastimes. A Chance for Stanley Here. A Savannah banker says that in the western part of North Carolina there are several counties amid almost inac-cessible mountains of which there is a little known to the outside world as there is of Central Africa. No rail-roads penetrate this region. Tlie na-tives have no idea of morality, live in a nianner littlo above the lowest brutes and have absolutely no knowledge of t he world outside llieir own communi-ties. Polygamy is practiced with khameless openness, and marriage cere-- monies are rare. v Mrs. Mayor Suiter. Mrs. Salter, the mayor of Argonia, Kas., is now administering the all'airs of that town for her second official term. She is mid to be a nervous look-ing and timid little woman, but besides attending to her public and social duties, she has doie all her household work, including washing, ironing and rooking for a family of five, and during the last year she hug increased hat family from five to six. Our Knormnua Tonnage. The tonnage passing through the De-troit river iu 21)4 days last year (1890) exceeded by 8,O0U,OftO tons the com-bined foreign and coastwise shipping of Liverpool and London, and by 10,000,-00- 0 tons the entries and clearances i f all the seaports of the United States. About one-thir- d of the whole steam tonnage of the United States is on the lakes, and the ratio is constantly in-creasing. ' A Froiicliniaii's Opinion. This is what a Parisian Marquise writes of tho American girl: "It is her life before the public, begun at the earliest possible period at day school and in boarding houses, which bestows on her the free and easy man-ner which makes her remarked upon whenever she appears. As soon as she enters society she does exactly what comes into her head. She goes alone to tho doctor, the dentist, the music master, and enrolls herself in the lists of clubs for fencing, German, skating, reading, baso ball, singing, &o. She prefers tho society of men to that of women, &c." And this is what the American girl answers: "If she does all of which this writer has pronounced her guilty, it is because of her security from insult in thought or deed, in the true and never failing courtesies of the American man, who, unlike, the French critic, reverences womanhood itself more than the con-ventionality with which he would sur-round and guard it." The well-bre- d, well read, American lady, be she girl or woman, requires only tho protection which her own re-finement and common sense provide from the men of her nation, and needs tho intervention of no chaperon to insure respectful demeanor. In fact, tho chaperon institution is considered by many cultured people an insult to the true womanhood of the American girl and to the honor of her fellow men. The Funeral of tlie Future. "Tho time is coming, " said an un-dertaker of New York city the other day, "when people will c ase to go to funerals in troops, and when the friends of the deceased will take farewell of the remains at his home, instead of follow-ing him to the grave as they do now. This will be a decided change for the better. Funerals as now conducted are foolish and meaningless performances. They bring discomfort to all who at-tend them, and in many eases they do positivo injury. Think of the thou-sands of people who catch their deaths of cold from standing shivering around an open grave and from sitting for hours in carriages traveling at a snail's pace for milos into the country. Of course the time is not far distant when burials will bo largely superseded by cremation. On the whole, I am disposed to re-gard cremation as a blessing. People are opposed to it now lwcauso they think that it is unnatural and horrible. It is simply an assistance to nature's work; it does neatly and quickly what nature accomplishes after a long time and in a very unpleasant fashion. I wonder if people will over realize that when a human being dies the body which he leaves behind him is not him-self. There is no more relation be-tween a man when he is living and when he is dead than there is between any living thing and a piece of clay. But we have not reached the stage of civilization when the popular mind can grasp this fact. When wo do, there will be very different funeral cere-- . monies from those now in vogue, and ' other methods of disposing of tho doad will change materially." New York Telegram. MORTON IN STONE. A marble Bust of the nt to Adorn the Henate Chamber. The marble bust of Ivi P. Morton, by F. Edwin Elwell of New York city, has arrived in Wash-ington and will shortly be placed in on of the niches of the Senate chamber. Mr. Clark, the architect of the capitol, intends to remove one of the busts op-posite the presiding officer's desk, and in its place will be put the bust of Mr. Morton. It is to be regretted that so life-lik- e a representation of the Vice-Preside-should be doomed to the obscure light of the Senate chamber. It has been suggested that the bust of the nts be placed at the foot of the gallery, where they would have a splen-did top light nnd show to good advant-age the character of the men who have occupied the prominent place of of the United States, and MORTON If MARBLK. this chancre of position nlay possibly b made later on. It is said that Mr. Elwell modeled the bust in two sittings of three hourj vh. The Horning Artcr. We bear about the solier second thought, But many prudence scorning, Seldom regard it till it is too late. Perhaps the following morning. Left I naoiight. They cry for almost everything That e'er was made or's been, But the child who cries for castor oil Has never yet been seen. A Valuable Butterfly. A young man camping in the Sierras discovered and captured a butterfly of nn unknown spocies. He sent it to the Smithsonian institution at Washington and received therefor a check for $1,500 ! with the request to make careful search for other moths of the Fame kind. It was an individual of a fossil species, supposed to be extinct, and great was the excitement among the scientists at the discovery that one of the race had been recently alive. Although diligent search has been made by men paid for tho service, no other specimen has been found. Her Sixth Sense. Yabsley "Of course you will admit that woman, as a rule, is far inferior to man in reasoning power; but she seems to have a sort of intuitive sixth sense - a er I don't exactly know what to call it, that as I can testify from per-sonal experience, man is lacking in." Miss Laura "Do you refer to com-mon sense, Mr. Yabsley?" Indianapo-lis Journal. A Very Rare Case. A Baltimore paper says: "In Kent, Md., there is a negro who runs every-wher- e he goes, stating that it 'gives me a pain' to walk. Would it not be possible to get this darkey in the mes-- senger service?" (Toaely Related. There is a strong resemblance be-tween many closod books with hand--' some bindings and a fool who keeps i still. 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